Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

As we march towards more in-home and remote care, the need for digital innovation was at an all time high. It was vital to find alternate solutions to provide the care people needed. At this point we are all very familiar with telehealth. However, telehealth is only useful if it is accessible. Dr. Jan stated.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. THE LARGER TREND. The critical value of telehealth is evident as the coronavirus spreads worldwide. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to a survey released Tuesday by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, the majority of physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals say telehealth is positively influencing clinical outcomes, patient experience, cost and professional satisfaction. Workflow was also an issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Manipal Hospitals has tapped Google Cloud to improve its virtual and remote care capabilities while leveraging AI to enhance patient experience. The partnership involves the deployment of the Amwell telehealth platform to enable virtual visits. THE LARGER TREND.

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InTouch Health

JULY 22, 2020

The rapid adoption of telehealth has greatly helped to expand access to healthcare at a time when traditional in-person visits had to be avoided due to the significant increased risk to patients, healthcare providers and communities. That represents a 50 to 175 times increase in the number of patients normally seen using telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. Some see that trend continuing even after the pandemic has eventually subsided. As COVID-19 continues to hammer the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 29, 2019

percent, nearly half of the state’s Medicare average, by introducing telehealth services. The non-profit also recently expanded its telehealth services through a partnership with Northwest Ohio Accountable Care Organization, and Ohio Living claimed 80 percent of patients enrolled would recommend the program to a family member or friend.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

THE LARGER TREND In the throes of the pandemic, the study's primary author, A. Jay Holmgren at UCSF, previously partnered with other researchers from Stanford, Harvard and other universities who suspected the rise of telehealth could be to blame for spiking the amount of time clinicians were spending in the EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services over the agency's telehealth restrictions. "That's a fundamental misunderstanding of what telehealth is," said Jesse Panuccio, partner at Boies Schiller Flexner and counsel for RemoteICU, in an interview with Healthcare IT News. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2019

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has announced the agency will vote to advance a $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program, enabling telehealth expansion for low-income Americans nationwide. "I think the FCC should support this new trend towards connected care, which is the healthcare equivalent of moving from Blockbuster to Netflix.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. Patients with cardiac arrhythmias can remain home while being continuously monitored.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

So we know that ‘remote care’ and ‘caring’ in its various forms, including telehealth , seem to be heating up as a priority , whether for senior living organizations , families, healthcare provider organizations. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Family caregivers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More and more patients are able to take advantage of remote consults and other virtual care options as health systems have begun pursuing telehealth programs in earnest, new HIMSS Media research shows. " Of the 125 respondents asked about the telehealth projects underway at the U.S. THE LARGER TREND.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

As the population aged 65+ exceed 54 million, trends emerge. The pace of innovation is accelerating, driven by older adult changing needs, shortage of care workers, investor interest and of course. Here are just four of the trends identified in the 2022 Market Overview, Technology for Aging. .

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 was a historic year for telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM), as a series of developments played out that helped extend these important care delivery services to more patients than ever before. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. Get more details here. January 18, 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2021

The survey, commissioned by specialist insurer Beazley , focused on 376 executives from telehealth companies in Europe, North America and Asia, as well as mobile platforms and life science technology software. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 3, 2019

Recent patient surveys shed light on who is using telemedicine, why they are using it, and how benefits and barriers to telehealth use are rapidly shifting as adoption grows. We’ve compiled the latest information about what telehealth patients look like in 2019, and their makeup might surprise you. Benefits of Telemedicine to Patients.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Virtual clinical trials are leveraging the power of telehealth technologies like remote patient monitoring and wearable mHealth devices to conduct safe and effective research at a lower cost by doing so remotely, as opposed to standard (and expensive) locations like a hospital or university medical center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2022

Wei noted the "great potential" for remote care management for chronic illnesses as these are the rising burden of disease in low and middle-income countries. THE LARGER TREND. At the start of the outbreak, it launched a free telehealth service via WhatsApp. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

The FHI identified three key trends for post-pandemic healthcare: the acceleration of virtual care delivery; a stepwise approach in digital transformation from telehealth to AI adoption; and an increased focus on building sustainable healthcare systems. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER PICTURE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2019

Browse the education sessions scheduled for the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference and expo in New Orleans next month, and you'll notice that many of them are geared toward elderly patients, home-based care and aging in place. We've been talking about it for decades, after all. ATA was founded way back in 1993.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

THE LARGER TREND. Along with telehealth, remote patient monitoring programs grew during the COVID-19 pandemic because federal rules gave providers the flexibility to use RPM for the duration of the public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

It offers technology implementation tips, as well as a reference to CPT codes for reporting telemedicine and remote care services. THE LARGER TREND. The availability of personal protective equipment and the opportunity to provide non-direct patient care are also special considerations."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2020

THE LARGER TREND. It also pointed out that "many of the waivers and temporary regulatory changes granted during this period have highlighted key opportunities to modernize healthcare delivery by removing outdated regulations."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2023

Three more services under Connected Care will be rolled out soon: GPConnect - a service that connects GPs and consultant cardiologists on matters of heart-related conditions; ICUConnect - remote monitoring service by ICU nurses for patients at home; and HospitalConnect - post-discharge monitoring service.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The comments focused on three areas: expanding access to more telehealth services and providers, changes to remote patient monitoring services, and telehealth in federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. " said Rittenhouse. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The new solution also offers the remote care team the ability to securely communicate with the patient thus providing feedback and reassurance to patients who are being cared for while in home quarantine. teamplay myCare companion-chronic care, is designed to telemonitor patients with chronic heart failure at home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

"We are excited to be pushing forward the evolution from telehealth to tele-diagnosis," said Tyto Care Co-Founder and CEO Dedi Gilad in a press release. The use of telehealth has surged in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with synchronous, one-on-one video proving particularly important in providing seamless care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

And while telehealth, a key component of this, has received much of the focus and spend, RPM has been gaining traction since the beginning of the pandemic. Q: What is the connection between telehealth and RPM, and how can the combination of these technologies make healthcare more streamlined and efficient? Then COVID-19 hit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By 2023, 65% of patients will have accessed care through a digital front door as healthcare providers look for better ways to improve access, engagements, and experiences across all services. THE LARGER TREND. 'Tis

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2021

The rising number of seniors and the rising cost of care are making technologies that can provide services like remote care delivery critically important, requiring a focus on innovation to keep costs down.

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care innovations

AUGUST 8, 2018

Back in 2014 , the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) collaborated with a network of local and national health technology leaders to build the Mississippi Diabetes Telehealth Network, an effort to extend quality care into rural and underserved regions with high rates of chronic illness.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

As health systems ramp up telehealth and, especially, remote patient monitoring programs, they're looking for technologies to help them manage multiple connected devices as they extend care delivery into patients' homes. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. And so it has – more than anyone could have expected.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Michael Gorton is founder and CEO of Recuro Health, a virtual care company that offers Digital Medical Home, which enables members in all 50 states to virtually access comprehensive healthcare services, including virtual primary and urgent care, behavioral health, at-home lab testing, genomics testing, as well as a suite of supplemental benefits.

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care innovations

JULY 27, 2018

After many years in the telehealth business, with much of it spent out in the field working directly with our customers, I noticed a trend out of the most successful ones. Ultimately, change is required to achieve the benefits of a telehealth program. Changes abound in a successful telehealth program, which is exactly the point!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

With the new CPT codes, providers can get reimbursed for: Educating patients on how to use a remote care-management platform. Monitoring a platform's alerts and patients' use of remote education. Providers now can get reimbursed for educating patients on how to use remote care management platforms.

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